Ham Steaks in Madeira Sauce^★

• 4
• 25 minutes
• Julia Child
• Meat

In 2018, Food & Wine named this recipe one of our 40 best: Julia Child was a longtime Food & Wine contributor — and a champion of ham. For this recipe, she was inspired by a dish called jambon à la morvandelle, the signature dish of Alexandre Dumaine, one of France’s most famous chefs in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ’50s. ’Although supermarket ham will do, real country ham will give you a dish more like Dumaine’s fabled creation,’ wrote Child. Child called the dish, featuring ham steaks basted in a mushroom and Madeira sauce, one of her ‘fast entrées for fancy people.’ She recommended serving them with steamed spinach and mashed potatoes.